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Here's What the Internet Is Up To

Harvard Business Review

As she does every year, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has bestowed upon us over a hundred slides that analyze internet trends. The Mysteries of the Cereal Box (New Republic) How Engineers Redesigned the Office Chair for Smartphone and Tablet Users (Popular Science) How Facebook''s IPO Was Bungled by Nasdaq''s Computers (Quartz).'

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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, Alphabet is now competitively positioned against GE with its new focus on the “industrial internet.” Venture capitalists help entrepreneurs to scale their companies for an IPO or acquisition by another company. ” A longer time horizon.

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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning.